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gifv - h264 video in gif

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9 years ago
imgur developed a way to convert gifs (256 color limited, plain image sequeces) into h264 format.

source:
http://imgur.com/blog/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/

the result of a 50MB gif is converted to <4MB, requires a h264-enabled browser (all major browsers) or hw-acceleration (android/apple devices).

they have submitted their process to the w3c so it may become a web-standart.

brave new world!

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([img ]http://i.imgur.com/u7Yo0Vy.gifv[/img])

Yep, just what I expected. Good luck embedding this kind of stuff in any forum, for the moment. Web standard acceptance might also take a while.

This isn't overly clear to me from the info, so I hope the adaption will come at the file format level (that is, .gifv will be treated like .gif images are treated now) with the encoding (and decoding) happening via .h264.
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commit attempt made (how does github work via web-edit?).

testing (below will probably work once integrated). im off into my offline weekend ;)

[gifv ]http://i.imgur.com/zvATqgs.gifv[/gifv]


see also
http://community.mybb.com/thread-161016.html
http://support.proboards.com/thread/528364/imgur-new-gifv-formats-embed?page=1&scrollTo=6051130
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9 years ago
would be great to get webm format on this forum
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9 years ago
ping. some project owner accept pull request.
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